prokopetz:

It’s absolutely okay to have a full party of tieflings and dragon-people and such. None of the playable races in Dungeons & Dragons are actually meant to be rare. They just mark anything that doesn’t appear in Lord of the Rings as “rare” as a token concession to a small but extremely vocal core of beardy old grognards who will totally flip their shit if anything that doesn’t appear in Lord of the Rings shows up in their Player’s Handbook. It’s one of those compromises that leaves everybody equally unhappy; the grognards get to point at the “rare” tag as evidence that they aren’t real D&D races (but still grumble about them being present at all), and normal people get more options (but still get salty about their favourite splat being treated as second class).